Word: successful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Quoting a sentence of Chiang Kai-shek's Christian testimony ... TIME, April 26: "This [becoming a follower of Jesus Christ] makes me realize more fully than ever that the success of our revolution depends upon men of faith, men of character, who because of their faith will not sacrifice principle for personal safety...
...personal safety. Should others? I sometimes wonder if America's legislators, its labor leaders, its industrialists, its occasional absentee defense workers, its sometimes selfishly pleasure-seeking civilians ever realize that . . . their maintenance of a solid fighting home front is as important a cog on the wheel of success as those facing the dive-bombers...
...success of our revolution depends upon men of faith, men of character...
Enormous possibilities lay open to the Allies this week: Allied invasion of Europe in the south and west, a final Russian offensive in the east, a culminating blow by air at Germany itself. If all of these possibilities became realities, if they proceeded to success, it was possible to conceive of the defeat of Hitler...
Break-Through by Air. The third ingredient of success was an air assault more devastating than any the Allies had ever tried in cooperation with ground troops, and perhaps more severe than any in the history of war. In two days Allied bombers and fighters flew 3,700 sorties (a sortie is one mission by one plane). An Allied communique claimed that planes "blasted a path in advance of our ground units," and there was no rhetoric in the claim. It was literally and dreadfully true...